Chaebixi

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by Chaebixi 10y ago
Maybe a bit more gentile to an audience of cryptographers. http://www-users.math.umn.edu/~math-sa-sara0050/space16/sche... http://www-users.math.umn.edu/~math-sa-sara0050/space16/sche...
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But they're changing* the world! * for some negative value of "change"
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> I was saying that talking to someone on the phone is the worst customer service experience in common use. I disagree with that pretty strongly. The phone is the second-best method for communicating a complex or unusual problem, only b
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I had the impression the Googlers were disproportionally active on Google+, and it seems this guy is complaining that even they are bailing. It's hilarious that this guy seems like the last person in the world who hasn't figured o
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> If I have to pick up the phone to solve a problem even once, I'm angry . > If I have to call them twice....I'm looking to get out of the shitty relationship I find myself in with that company. [emphasis mine] You are w
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> My point is, the less active money there is around, the less accurate our concept of a correct value can be. This situation has the potential to de-stabilise the economy sooner rather than later. Could that be mitigated by people not
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by Chaebixi 10y ago
IANAL, but haven't courts thrown out terms in click-through EULAs because a user wouldn't reasonably have been aware of what they were agreeing to?
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> Delta offered this maximum, and was declined by all passengers. > Then Delta called government law enforcement offers > Now due to the losses in stock price Delta has reevaluated it's risk/reward on terms of bumping pas
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by Chaebixi 10y ago
> Not sure Anti-ad-blocking laws are practically enforceable An anti-ad-blocker ad would probably be easy to enforce: arrest the people making and distributing ad blockers. However, I think the main threat is a repeal of requirements to
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> How is NSA TAO not being held criminally irresponsible by our administration Hate to break the news to you about the new administration...
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> Edit: Also, a pet peeve of mine. You've probably heard a flight attendant tell someone something along the lines of "It's illegal to disobey instructions from a flight crew." That's complete bullshit. There is
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Yeah. Maybe people will forget about the incident soon if nothing happens, but they're now primed to think United is even scummier if it ever does something similar in the foreseeable future.
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> Although REI also eliminated their lifetime guarantee. IIRC, that was due to blatant abuse (e.g. people scrounging up worn-out stuff from garage sales to trade in for new). http://www.dailyemerald.com/2013/06/
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by Chaebixi 10y ago
I think custom domains are a tool for price segmentation* (like a student discount). Medium and Wordpress want offer a free product (for marketing/network effects), but also have their higher-end users pay. They do that by limiting a
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> we decided to undergo a thorough engineering review of the product and started to look deeper into the Plan 9 filesystem code, which allows VMs to access the host’s filesystem. That's interesting. Was it actually based on Plan 9?
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> The production of nuclear weapons is under civilian control. That's not what the comment was talking about. This is what I was responding to: >> Military doesn't man the ICBMs. They are controlled by civilians That&
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We'll disrupt the market by disrupting our workers!
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> A side note: Military doesn't man the ICBMs. They are controlled by civilians. This is by design because the past administrations didn't trust the military to control ICBMs. The fear that they would use them without hesitatio
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That's not surprising. The dogma of open offices assumes that most disruptions are informative, when in fact they're just disruptive.
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> proponents will say it greatly reduces or eliminates the risk of buying something that will not work right. IIRC, it's been shown that a massive percentage of the Apple chargers for sale on Amazon are difficult to spot counterfeit
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by Chaebixi 10y ago
> I don't understand why American shareholders are so quiescent and trusting of their boards. In this case, I don't think that's what's going on. Most of the shareholder proposals I've seen are basically idiosyn
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> If one/both of them starts getting power-mad with their influence, they can get booted off the list, and replaced, or have others come in next to them. How will the algorithm know a source is getting power mad?
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by Chaebixi 10y ago
Also, aren't a lot of "fact checking" organizations actually explicitly partisan advocacy organizations? edit: I'm not saying all of them, downvoters. I can't be the first one to think a partisan "fact check&qu
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by Chaebixi 10y ago
I think multi-tasking with an audiobook only works when the other task is one you can perform automatically (e.g. highway driving). If you're doing anything that requires any thought or decision making, then you might as well not bo
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> I think there is something to increasing voting preference based on tenure of shareholding. Giving more control to longer-term shareholders leads to long term thinking aim governance. While I like any idea that would encourage longer-t
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> That sounds like a double-edged sword, since by those rules an Evil Attacker Organization™ could now get rid of key people by stirring up enough drama around them [emphasis mine]. I don't think it is. It's one thing to hav
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Didn't the other contributors leave to join a fork? https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Librecor... http://librecore.info/
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> There is a worrying trend of treating staff as equally capable but untrusted cogs in a wheel, and metricising performance And not just in academia. Technology has allowed the collection of metrics and data to a degree unheard of previ
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Never attribute to intelligence that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
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> customer wants a custom frappadappalappachino instead of the regular drink Actually, I think that's something that would be relatively easily to automate. I've seen computerized ordering kiosks in European fast food restaura

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